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The ‘Dulux Walls’ film (part of their latest advertising campaign) has to be one of the most beautiful commercials of the last few years.
The ‘Dulux Walls’ film (part of their latest advertising campaign) has to be one of the most beautiful commercials of the last few years.

If you’ve got a spare 20 minutes watch David McCandless‘ talk about data visualisation at the Technology, Entertainment, Design conference.
Wonderful rolling time-lapse video of Japan by American Director Brad Kemer using the Canon 5D MarkII.

Caught a wicked set from Dan Kelly at the Corner Hotel here in Melbourne on Friday night for the release of his new album ‘Dan Kelly’s Dream‘.
A very talented friend of mine working for DT Digital here in Melbourne has just released a series of online shorts for Honda promoting the Honda Jazz.

K-Swiss recently hired Keith Schofield to put together a fairly awesome commercial with the tag line ‘Have an Awesome Day. Which is timely, because 2010 has turned out to be the year of the word Awesome. Personally I’m hoping the word ’splendid’ makes a revival in 2011.

I was lucky enough to be invited along to the opening of a couple of exhibitions at Craft Victoria including the work of Melbourne installation artist Aimee Fairman.

After months of deliberation the Royal Commission report into the 2009 bushfires has been released and its findings have been made public.
ASIOKE is a short motion graphics piece I put together a few years ago using After Effects. It combines two of my favourite things; karaoke and paranoia.

I made this last year year as an exercise in Photoshop illustration for the 40th Anniversary of the moon landing.
Apart from the background texture it was created entirely in photoshop using gradients and layer styles. Here’s the big(ger) version.

I put together a number of identity concepts for a construction company here in Melbourne last week.
DBS is one of the primary contractors to local government and commercial businesses in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne and they were looking to re-brand and expand their business with a new identity and web presence.

I just recently finished working on a number of logo design concepts for a new business here in Melbourne that aims to provide blinds, shades and shutters for large-scale commercial and residential real estate projects.

It may be just the echo-effect of online media but it seems like the latest version of Photoshop has been greeted with more media attention than any previous release.

Dave and I here at Riddip have finished work on an in-house website redesign for local hairdressing salon Phaedra.

I came across this conceptual art piece by British artist Fiona Banner which is currently on display at the Tate in London.

Some labour-intensive identity work from Dutch designer Roald van der Meer using forced-perspective to bring the MTV logo to life.

In keeping with the last few updates on branding and Identity design I’ve scanned in some excerpts from this book of Japanese family crests and heraldry.

I earmarked Ptarmak design studio in Austin a while back to do a post on because, aside from having solid portfolio of branding projects, they have a real flair for presenting their work and an excellent HTML site to top it all off.